Indian Air Force (And year inducted in service – The First flown dates are even older)
Canberra – 1957 onwards – will be there till 2008
HS748 – 1961 onwards – will be there till 2010
MiG-21 – 1963 onwards – will be there till 2020
HJT-16 Kiran – 1964 onwards – will be there till 2015
Alloutte III – 1961 onwards – will be there till 2015

Indian Navy
HJT 16 Kiran
Tu-142 Bear

In the Hurricane pictures

I can see three main types of parts that make up the fuselage.
One is the main tubular section.
Second are the vertical fuselage cross section members – are they wooden?
Third are the fuselage stringers that connect the vertical fuselage cross section parts. I am assuming they are wooden too.

Seems to me that there is a high content of wood craftsmanship in a hurricane

and this one? 😀

Thanks Mark – got to admit, the ac looks nice. like a large oversized fighter (ala Mosquito, Beaufighter etc)

Blenheim Mk1 prototype or that predecessor that paperwallah got built privately, or a Mk1 with inline engines.

Now has anyone heard about the Mustangs [sic] in a hangar/shed??? in Northern India?? People from Oz went looking a few years ago and it is said they saw them but could not do a deal as the “owner” was a f#$&*…

Err.. you mean those crated spitfires ..dont you? 😉 :diablo:

The MiG-21M fin in the picture is commonly misidentified in Pakistani pubications as a MiG-27.

Arshad,

Only the MiG-21 is lost to a MANPAD . The MiG-27 was lost to a flame out.

There is a first person account of the MiG-27 pilot on BR, he also does not mention any missile hit.

The clincher in my opinion is that even PAFCombat.com , a pakistani website maintained by a serving PAF Air Commodore (who incidentally is said to be commanding Mauripur, the largest airbase in the south) says that the MiG-27 was lost to a flame out.

http://www.pafcombat.com/combat-losses/iaf-siachen-kargil.htm